Martin Carthy
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Paul Weller: True Meanings review – A return to form and focus
- Music
- September 12, 2018, 09:30
There have been occasions in the past 40 years of Paul Weller’s career when ambitions have outstripped results, but there’s no denying the dedication (...)
Paul Simon: what to expect at farewell concert in Dublin
- Music
- July 12, 2018, 06:15
Paul Simon adopts a comical Mancunian accent as he remembers how promoters in the working men’s clubs would introduce him in the 1960s, telling audien(...)
Offa Rex: A fateful evocation of British folk-rock
- Music
- July 11, 2017, 13:24
As befits a band named after an early 19th-century Russian revolutionary group, Portland, Oregon’s The Decemberists have a strong sense of history. In(...)
Other Voices day two review: Glen Hansard, Mahalia, Low
- Music
- December 6, 2015, 13:45
Glen Hansard **** Lest we forget, Glen Hansard presented the inaugural series of Other Voices during the great Irish singer-songwriter boom of 2003.(...)
‘When Séamus Ennis played, it stood your hair on end’
- Music
- August 10, 2015, 06:00
‘Séamus Ennis was unique,” wrote Ciarán Mac Mathúna, about the singular piper, folklorist and broadcaster on his death in 1982. “Of course every pe(...)
Sam Amidon – an old folk head on young shoulders
- Music
- October 25, 2013, 00:00
Sam Amidon is trying his hardest to rein in his inner fanboy, but it’s impossible. He just can’t help it. “I mean, Martin Hayes, ” he says with the(...)
